was $21.69. Since then, Rayonier Inc. Reit has gained 7.03% as of 01/13/2016's recent price of $23.22. If you would have followed this Jim Jubak: The 10 best stocks for 2009 's recommendation on RYN, you would have gained 7.03% of your investment in 2584 days.

Rayonier Inc., including its subsidiaries, is a leading international forest products company primarily engaged in the trading, merchandising and manufacturing of logs, timber and wood products, and in the production and sale of high-value-added specialty pulps. Rayonier owns, leases, manages or controls vast areas of timberland in the United States and New Zealand. The company operates in two major business segments, Timber and Wood Products and Specialty Pulp Products.

The following are my 10 best picks for 2009. After the picks I'll have a few words about how much money -- and when -- you should put into these stocks.
The 5 best stocks for the first half of 2009
* Deere (DE, news, msgs), a farm machine producer that tracks the price of agricultural commodities.
* Enbridge (ENB, news, msgs), a natural-gas and oil pipeline company that has a 3.8% yield.
* ExxonMobil (XOM, news, msgs), the world's best integrated oil company for the current environment. With a yield of 2%, these shares just make my cut.
* Flowserve (FLS, news, msgs). Can you say infrastructure? It makes pumps and valves for moving everything from water to oil and has a yield of 2%.
* Rayonier (RYN, news, msgs), a producer of wood products and an owner of timberland. Yield: 7.2%.
The 5 best stocks for the second half of 2009
* Goldcorp (GG, news, msgs), the world's low-cost producer of gold.
* Google (GOOG, news, msgs), the dominant Internet search company just gets more dominant.
* HSBC (HBC, news, msgs), the best banking franchise left standing in Asia.
* Petrobras (PBR, news, msgs). The Brazilian national oil company has dozens of new fields under development.
* Thompson Creek Metals (TC, news, msgs), the second-largest private producer of molybdenum in the world.

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